
A Touch of Class
Episode 1 • Sep 19, 1975
A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding guests.
12 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
1975
Rating
8.3/10
751 votes • HD
Episodes
Episode 1 • Sep 19, 1975
A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
Episode 2 • Sep 26, 1975
The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
Episode 3 • Oct 03, 1975
Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.
Episode 4 • Oct 10, 1975
Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.
Episode 5 • Oct 17, 1975
To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.
Episode 6 • Oct 24, 1975
Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests where Germany went wrong in WWII.
Episode 1 • Feb 19, 1979
A selectively deaf woman named Mrs Richards insists that she has had a large amount of money stolen at the hotel, and against Sybil's wishes Basil puts a fiver on Dragonfly.
Episode 2 • Feb 26, 1979
A psychiatrist and his wife come to stay and Basil thinks Sybil is telling them all about his life.
Episode 3 • Mar 05, 1979
An American and his wife get unsatisfactory service at Fawlty Towers when he orders a Waldorf salad, after the kitchen has closed.
Episode 4 • Mar 12, 1979
Unknown to Basil, a guest dies in the night and he tries to serve him breakfast anyway and an obnoxious woman insists on service for her dog.
Episode 5 • Mar 26, 1979
Sybil leaves before Basil's surprise anniversary party and Basil spends the evening trying to convince their friends she's ill.
Episode 6 • Oct 25, 1979
The health inspector is coming and Basil tells Manuel to get rid of his pet rat, which he later finds out is named Basil.
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